1,720,988 research outputs found
Comprensione di testi cartacei e digitali in bambini frequentanti la prima classe della scuola primaria
No full textLo studio ha come obiettivo confrontare la capacità di comprensione di testi cartacei e digitali di 115 bambini di classe prima che utilizzano la tecnologia a scopo di apprendimento in modo sostanziale. Nell’analizzare l’influenza del mezzo di presentazione, sono state prese in considerazione anche altre variabili relative al compito (livello di comprensione richiesto: superficiale o profondo) e del lettore (capacità di lettura di parole). Nel complesso, i risultati suggeriscono che le capacità di comprensione di testi cartacei e digitali di bambini che usano la tecnologia a scopo di apprendimento in modo sostanziale sono simili
Measuring insecure attachment in middle childhood: Psychometric evaluation of the short form of the Preoccupied and Avoidant Coping Questionnaire
No full textThe short form of the Preoccupied and Avoidant Coping Questionnaire (PACQ; Younger, Corby, Perry, 2005)is a widely used self-report questionnaire measuring insecure attachment toward mother and father in middle childhood. However, its factorial structure has not yet been examined, and evidence concerning its concurrent and convergent validity is extremely sparse. In Study 1 (N = 378, M = 9.37 years), we evaluated the factorial structure of the PACQ and its measurement invariance across Italian boys and girls. In Study 2 (N = 199, M = 9.27 years), we tested the mutual associations between the PACQ and the Experiences in Close Relationships–Revised Child version (ECR-RC; Brenning, Van Petegem, Soenens, 2014), and their convergent and predictive validity. Results supported the factorial validity of the PACQ, its satisfactory internal consistency and structural invariance across child gender. However, findings lent only partial support to the association between the PACQ and the ECR-RC, and convergent and predictive validity were found only for the avoidance subscale of these questionnaires. Overall, the Italian version of the PACQ is a psychometrically sound instrument to assess insecure attachment in middle childhood, but further research is needed to shed light on the conceptual significance of the preoccupied dimension
Adverse childhood experiences and early-adult somatization: the role of romantic attachment in a female group
No full textTheory of mind uniquely predicts multipletext comprehension in fourth and fifth graders
No full textThe study analyzes the predictive role of Theory of Mind (ToM) to the comprehension of multiple texts on two topics in 4th and 5th graders. Topic of the texts and other relevant individual skills were considered as control. Participants were 184 children attending 3 schools. Multiple-text comprehension and ToM were assessed using short essays and mental state explanations for stories. Mixed models showed that ToM uniquely predicts multiple-text comprehension over and above control variables
Maltrattamento emotivo e sintomi somatici in età giovanile adulta. Il ruolo di mediazione dello stile di attaccamento romantico in una popolazione femminile
No full textIl maltrattamento emotivo è spesso associato alla comparsa in età adulta di una varietà di compromissioni della salute mentale e fisica. Tra queste, i disturbi somatici hanno un’alta incidenza tra le vittime di maltrattamento, in particolare tra le donne. L’indagine dei fattori di mediazione tra tali esperienze e la successiva sintomatologia adulta, mette in evidenza il ruolo dell’attaccamento romantico, anche nello specifico caso dei disturbi somatici, tuttavia sono ancora pochi gli studi sul tema. L’obiettivo principale degli autori è quello di verificare l’effetto delle esperienze avverse di abuso e trascuratezza emotivi sulla comparsa di sintomi somatici in un gruppo di donne giovani-adulte, attraverso l’effetto di mediazione dei livelli di ansia ed evitamento dell’attaccamento romantico. Le partecipanti sono 346 studentesse (età media = 23.17) che hanno completato un pro-tocollo self-report costituito da: Childhood Trauma Questionnaire-Short Form (CTQ-SF), Experiences in Close Relationships Scale-Revised (ECR-R) e Symptom Check-List (SCL-90). Attraverso l’applicazione di un modello di equazione strutturale gli autori hanno esaminato la mediazione dell’attaccamento romantico (ECR-R) nella relazione tra maltrattamento emotivo (CTQ-SF) e sintomi somatici (SCL-90). Il fit del modello appare adeguato ed evidenzia che l’attaccamento romantico media la relazione tra maltrattamento emotivo infantile e disturbi somatici in età adulta (b = 0.15, SE = 0.05, z = 2.76, p = 0.006, 95% CI [0.04, 0.25]). I risultati dello studio sottolineano l’importanza di includere l’aspetto relazionale nell’intervento con le donne vittime di esperienze infantili, in una prospettiva di prevenzione degli effetti negativi delle esperienze infantili avverse e di conseguente riduzione dei costi di salute pubblic
The perinatal health secondary to pandemic: association between women’s delivery concerns and infant’s behavioral problems
No full textBackgroundCOVID-19 pandemic characterised a unique and vulnerable social, emotional, and health environment for pregnancy, with potential long-lasting risks to maternal and child health outcomes. In women who were pregnant at the peak of COVID-19 pandemic, we investigated the association between pandemic-related concerns about pregnancy and delivery and both the parent's (i.e. maternal parenting stress) and the infant's (i.e. emotional-behavioral problems) outcomes 12 months after birth.MethodsA sample of 352 Italian pregnant women completed a web-based survey from 8 April to 4 May 2020 and a follow-up at 12 months after delivery. Maternal assessment in pregnancy covered prenatal measures for: pandemic-related concerns about pregnancy and childbirth, COVID-19 stressful events exposure, pandemic psychological stress, and mental-health symptoms (i.e. depression, anxiety). The 12 months' assessment covered post-partum measures of social support, parenting stress and maternal reports of infants' behavioral problems.ResultsThe results of the Quasi-Poisson regression models on the association between COVID-19 related influencing factors and parenting stress and infant's behavioral problems showed that the presence of higher pandemic-related concerns about pregnancy and childbirth scores was associated with greater total and internalising behavioral problems but not with parenting stress levels.ConclusionPerinatal mother-infant health has been sensitively threatened by pandemic consequences with maternal concerns about childbirth in pregnancy being associated with 12 months' children's behavioral outcomes. There is a need to invest in psychological support for perinatal women throughout the transition to parenthood to protect risk conditions before they get chronic or severe and influence offspring development
In the pandemic from the womb. Prenatal exposure, maternal psychological stress and mental health in association with infant negative affect at 6 months of life
Full text link: For mother-infant health especially, the pandemic has brought multiple stressors inside a susceptible psychobiological system. We study the longitudinal associations between maternal prenatal and postpartum: (a) COVID-19 stressful events exposure, (b) pandemic psychological stress, and (c) mental health and infants' negative affect. A sample of 643 Italian pregnant women completed a web-based survey from April 8th to May 4th, 2020 and a follow-up at 6 months after delivery. Maternal assessment covered prenatal and postpartum measures for: COVID-19 stressful events exposure, pandemic psychological stress, mental health symptoms (i.e., depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder) and postpartum, social support and report of infants' negative affect. Maternal mental health symptoms during pregnancy, at the peak of pandemic, is longitudinally associated with infant negative affect, with postpartum mental health mediating this association. Also, maternal COVID-19 stressful events exposure in postpartum is associated with negative affect at 6 months mediated by postpartum mental health symptoms. Maternal pandemic psychological stress during pregnancy predicted mental health symptoms in postpartum. The study supports the association between pandemic-related maternal health across pregnancy and postpartum and offspring's development (i.e., negative affect). It also puts the spotlight on mental health risk in women experiencing lockdown during pregnancy, especially when feeling high psychological stress in pregnancy or when directly exposed to COVID-19 stressful events postpartum
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
- …
